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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1h

“And you know, and I’m not making this up, they were given leave to stay here because they had a Schrödinger’s cat together…”

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1h

Hold on, hold on, Home Secretary

English cannot be both a Mickey Mouse degree that we should not fund from the public purse while also an essential criteria for being able to remain in the UK

That’s a Catch-22… and that’s a well known book or saying for those not versed

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1h

Hold on, hold on, Home Secretary

English cannot be both a Mickey Mouse degree that we should not fund from the public purse while also an essential criteria for being able to remain in the UK

That’s a Catch-22… and that’s a well known book or saying for those not versed

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1h

You dont knead A-level standard Inglish to work hear but it helps

The Independent @the-independent.com · 4h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1h

90% culled from a handful of query searches, with 10% added by me to make the task work

I feel a moral responsibility to make them aware of the costs of such tech

Thanks

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1h

Can anyone point me in the direction of an easily understandable and easily digestible piece that I can adapt or simply pass onto/refer students to on the harms of AI/LLMs/ChatGPT?…environmental, moral theft etc

I have set as a formative task the provision of critical feedback on an amalgam essay

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 9h

“…a day like today, I mean, it’s not a day for soundbites really ..you can leave those at home …..but I do feel the hand of history on our shoulder”

T Blair 1998

Absolutely A1 f**** marvellous work, Tony

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 9h

New post, in which I argue the government's attempt to pin the blame for the collapse of the China spy trial on a single official will not wash constitutionally. Ministers must bear responsibility for an apparently deeply flawed decision-making process.

publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/10/13/c...

Cock-up or conspiracy? The Security Minister’s statement on the China espionage case

The Security Minister, Dan Jarvis, has made a statement to the House of Commons regarding the collapse of the prosecution of two individuals who had been accused of espionage contrary to section 1(…

publiclawforeveryone.com

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 9h

are very comfortable with stoning gays to death or who advocate assassination of abortion clinicians

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 9h

Nick Robinson seems unwittingly to have confirmed Mishal Hussain’s exact points

All faiths have fundamentalist elements yet the media and politicians label Islamist far more easily and frequently

We far more rarely read it of Christians who on the most favourable account of their own words

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 19h

Mark, thanks as ever for the blog

It highlights for me anyway an under-explored issue in relation to that constitutional doctrine:ministerial competence qua dept administrative head

I’m reminded of Diana Woodhouse’s(?) idea of role responsibility…the resignation of Estelle Morris a case in point

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Of course we have …the day after I finalised and uploaded my lectures

Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social · 1d

We have an updated ministerial code! The new code makes clear that ministers "are expected" to pay back any severance payment if they quickly get a new ministerial job or are found to have broken the rules on post-government jobs

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Ministerial Code

Ministerial Code setting out the standards of conduct expected of ministers and how they discharge their duties.

www.gov.uk

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 1d

Is it age or does 6pm Friday seem only an afternoon ago?

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a big fan of Labour-y people across the spectrum but I’m not sure that announcing a policy review or a massive private bank announcing an investment is really a “Labour achievement” in the same way as the Govt pumping in £84m (No1) is

LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 4d

This week’s top ten Labour achievements include better GP access, new licensing laws and the phenomenal benefits of the trade deal with India. Welcome Bollywood!

1. £84 million injection to tackle homelessness
2. Half of rail operators publicly owned with Greater Anglia onboard
3. First illegal migrants returned under new UK-France agreement
4. Patients in poorer areas to get better access to GPs
5. 10,600 new UK jobs have been unlocked during the Prime Minister’s visit to India
6. New licensing laws are being reviewed
7. 64 Indian companies will invest over £1 billion into the UK, creating 6,900 jobs spread across every region
8. £167m funding will allow specialist employment advisers in GP surgeries & mental health services. Helping people back into workplace.
9. CEO of JP Morgan Chase in Bournemouth announced £350 million expansion of their campus there
10. 21,000 new homes in North Sussex unlocked after four-year bottleneck
11. More than 1,120 senior gang members have been charged and over 2,300

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 3d

“Bringing facts to a vibes fight” deserves an entry into 2025 phrase of the year

Absolute genius

UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 5d

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR

It is now 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) entered into force and far from this endurance cementing its legitimacy, the judicial protection of human rights in the UK finds itself in t…

ukconstitutionallaw.org

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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 5d

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR

It is now 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) entered into force and far from this endurance cementing its legitimacy, the judicial protection of human rights in the UK finds itself in t…

ukconstitutionallaw.org

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, Mark; that’s very kind

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 4d

“It was the 89th anniversary of the arrest of my father for being one of the organisers of the 1936 Cable Street resistance to the rise of fascism in Britain.

I was arrested on Saturday with hundreds of others at the Defend Our Juries action…”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

www.theguardian.com

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Netpol @netpol.org · 4d

One of our team was arrested yesterday for allegedly breaching protest restrictions, even though they weren't protesting – because wearing a keffiyeh while walking down the street is "reasonable suspicion".

This is the result of Starmer's crackdown: we're back in time to Nov 2023 under the Tories

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 4d

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 4d

And why is he talking about freedom of speech when there has been a right to freedom of speech for 25 years

Sounds the same…but conceptually different

David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 4d

The university’s free speech regulator was not all over the airwaves about this two days ago…

This too is a threat to the right to freedom of expression on campus

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 4d

A letter from @crwerren.bsky.social @suzmd.bsky.social @storiesfromjack.bsky.social and me on the plans to allow cumulatively disruptive protests to be regulated by the police

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

www.theguardian.com

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 5d

Nice

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 5d

C’mon folks, do the right thing!

(Kirsty is one of my former students, and I’m so proud of what she’s done since graduating 🙇‍♂️)

Kirsty Richards @82ladyk.bsky.social · 5d

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 6d

I wish more academics would openly recognise when stepping out of their own lane - into an area in which they are not expert or unbelievably well versed - but nonetheless offer an informed view based on their wider experience and knowledge as the basis for a discussion

Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 6d

New post | On China, the Official Secrets Act and 'enemies': Is the Prime Minister wrong?
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/10/08/o...

On China, the Official Secrets Act and ‘enemies’: Is the Prime Minister wrong?

The Prime Minister has claimed that his government’s hands are tied in relation to whether China constituted an ‘enemy’ for the purpose of a now-dropped criminal prosecution under…

publiclawforeveryone.com

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